WARNING: Instagram says it now has the right to Sell your photos - Facebook owns Instagram

Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users' photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry. The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on January 16, comes three months after Facebook completed its acquisition of the popular photo-sharing site. Unless Instagram users delete their accounts before the January deadline, they cannot opt out.

Basically someone can take a picture with you in it -- you may not even know the photographer -- or know that you were snapped in a photo. Then it's uploaded to Instagram by the photographer, someone can buy it, and neither YOU nor the photographer receives notice or compensation. Next thing you know YOUR picture is posted on some brochure somewhere....or worse, posted as a negative type thing, i.e. YOU'RE the person used in a "fight obesity" campaign - with your pic in hospitals, offices and schools everywhere.

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Instagram has backed down. Go to link provided to see update. Still doesnt change my mind. The fact that they would even consider that type of policy, I can no longer trust them. What's to keep them from going back to that policy once things have calmed down.

I have a family web site for sharing photos and videos. It is password protected, registered anonymously, hosted in another country, and not indexed on search engines. I control who gets notifications when something is posted there. I also use my web site to host a family calendar rather than use Google. Most of my friends and family use Facebook, but I refuse. It isn't that complicated or expensive to create a web page and make it a little secure.

This is something that is happening more and more each day and people just fall for it over and over again becoming "socially dependant" on these technologies to maintain some sort of sense of who they are to other people (I personally don't give a damn). One of my friends ended up on cellphone packaging for Virgin Mobile when they first launched, although that was from a photographer going around taking pics of "edgy" and "funky" people for an undisclosed client. She signed some vague document and poof! Her face is selling cellphones.

Simply alter what you use these technologies for. Maybe don't use them for personal use but rather creative activist ideas or activities.

You want to be social? Dial a number or send a text and MEET FACE TO FACE WITH PEOPLE again.

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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience"—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

But is anyone surprised? Why do people think posting their pictures anywhere on the internet should give them any sort of rights to privacy? The internet (especially places like Facebook, Twitter, and instagram) are not private places.

Google has sold out to the board of directors
But when they wouldn't stand up for the Truth in China who didn't know?

(They be bad will sell out for money)

On face book get real if your on there and you tell your self what do I have to worry about you need to do a little more research and by when your doing research you may want to use google uk at a min!

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Just want what seems to be missing, Truth and Justice for ALL
What is fraud except creating “value” from nothing and passing it off as something?

google uk did bring up quite different results. I still do not view the internet as a private place, and people who wish their habits online were private confuse me. If you put it on the internet everybody with an internet connection can find it somehow someway. Want something in your life to be private? Keep it to yourself.

When you sign up to Facebook they own rights to all pictures you post. So, if you post a vacation picture of you and your family at Disney, and if they so choose they can sell the use of it to Disney. And the kicker is, they make money on your picture and you get nothing. If you post a picture of your kid they can use it for any advertisement they want. If you think you aren't good looking enough to be used by an advertiser. Be aware that they can use you for negative parts of ads too. "this is what smoking does to you" or "America has gotten too fat" or whatever. You could find your kid the poster child for global warming. And there isn't a thing you can do about it.

You're much more likely to buy a product or vote for a candidate if the advertisement includes someone who looks like you. With technology advancing the way it is, they might even be able to make it you in the ad. Imagine that, using you in an ad to sell something to you.

The language would include not only photos of picturesque sunsets on Waikiki, but also images of young children frolicking on the beach, a result that parents might not expect, and which could trigger state privacy laws.

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Another unusual addition to Instagram's new policy appears to immunize it from liability, such as class action lawsuits, if it makes supposedly private photos public. The language stresses, twice in the same paragraph, that "we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of content" and "Instagram will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any content you provide."

I find it strange that no one reads any contracts anymore... Isn't it freaking crazy. I mean I see people taking out mortgages and don't even read a page before signing. What happened to common sense or should I say uncommon sense now a days.

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